LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
New Role >>Senior Legal Counsel – Challenging, Interesting, TransTasman Commercial Role – 6-12 Years PQE Read the statute and New Zealand’s Attorney-General picks the senior judges. Read the protocol and the Chief Justice decides who gets on the list. Roger Partridge is stirring the judicial pot again. Ask most lawyers who appoints New Zealand’s senior
Power Points: In three days, a federal appeals court confirmed that Westlaw’s headnotes cannot be freely used to train a rival AI tool, and a California law firm filed a proposed antitrust class action alleging that Thomson Reuters’ $650 million Casetext purchase was a “killer acquisition.” One case says the content moat is legally protected
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LawFuel’s September 24 coverage of Casepoint’s new purpose-built agents captures where legal technology is heading. The systems are moving beyond chatbots and drafting assistants toward agents that perform relevance review, issue coding, and other steps inside live legal workflows. Casepoint’s emphasis on audit trails, performance testing, and human validation is a useful start. The next
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Article source: Sargon Law Group The other driver’s insurer called me before the rental company did, and that told me everything about how the next three weeks were going to go. Someone rear-ended you at a red light in a car you don’t own. Your own car is fine, sitting in your driveway. The vehicle
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Michael E. Smith to lead appellate advocacy and strategic trial supportLAS VEGAS, October 7, 2026 — Isso Reeves Smith Whitbeck LLP today announced the introduction of its Civil Appellate Practice Group, led by Michael E. Smith, Esq. The group will provide focused representation in civil appeals and strategic support for businesses, individuals, and trial counsel.The
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Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest-grossing law firm has decided that publishing its extraordinary profits is no longer particularly helpful, after years at the top of the rankings.
Kirkland has decided to stop voluntarily disclosing its financial performance to The American Lawyer, ending its participation in the annual financial reporting exercise that has become BigLaw’s favourite competitive sport.
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The Duke of York may be out, but the litigation claimant is in. Stripped of his royal titles and his dukedom last October, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has gone from pariah to a significant public-law litigant having launched judicial review proceedings against Thames Valley Police and the Central Criminal Court following his birthday arrest. The first round
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LONDON & NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence and advanced technologies are fundamentally altering how global transactions are sourced, valued, and closed, turning technology into a primary acquisition rationale across every sector rather than a siloed asset class, according to a major new report from Eversheds Sutherland. Titled “This is the new M&A: Technology and the
Hagens Berman co-founder Steve W. Berman’s novel follows a Seattle plaintiffs’ attorney as he fights for a community being poisoned and a manipulative AI companion SEATTLE — Steve Berman, managing partner and co-founder of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, has a storied 45-year legal career. He represented Holocaust survivors seeking lost family heirlooms, traveled in a
The $1.3B Blind Spot and Why Enterprise Leaders Can’t Explain Their Own Contracts Corporate legal teams are sitting on billions of dollars in contract commitments—and almost none of them can remember why those terms were agreed to in the first place. A stark new report from legal AI provider Luminance, titled The Billion-Dollar Blind-Spot, reveals
